Ronnie Sinclair

1 hour ago, somered said:

Well this Brum fan thought different

 

no surprise he had them on strings, most of the fanbase are muppets after all (the ones on here excepted of course).  Is it any wonder they did not feature in that council video, it was to avoid the embarrassment to Bristol that they bring daily to our fair city

2 minutes ago, BCFC11 said:

Yet they wonder why we continue to take the piss on this thread??? 

This thick moron reckons Swansea fans should remember where they came from because he remembers going to the Vetch,  well this would of been over 15 years ago ATLEAST!! It’s not something anything or anyone associated with the Fewers but it’s called progress, and have moved on from the 70’s unlike them. Bitter and jealous little turd clearly doesn’t like anyone other than a fellow Sag when stating facts about Chernobyl.

the Vetch Field was a state of the art stadia compared to the Minimal (how anyone can label it a 'stadium' is one of life's mysteries)

25 minutes ago, Red Right Hand said:

But, but a Birmingham fan told them it was authentic and genuine and a proper football ground. And Ashton Gate smells of poo.

So who do we believe?

I've often wondered why they lie so much, must be the fumes from that stale Fanta.  Not sure why they are getting agitated by Swansea, who are a bigger club than them in every aspect

they have to brace themselves these days - mainly because the tightening of belts caused by an owner's empty wallet has caused those belts to snap

8 minutes ago, Red Right Hand said:

You`d think with their prowed record of horse punching, racism, sexual assault, ground stealing, making up stories about disabled fans being attacked, stealing from their own supporters club, `sharing` season tickets and attacking their own players they`d draw their horns in a bit.

#peopleinglasshouses

they can only dream of glass houses - more like #peopleincrustyoldtents

Vile club in every possible aspect 

I thought the school holidays were the end of next week......

£10-15 million?  that's a lot of turd polish

another new signing today on loan from Sheffield United (Tyler Smith - a striker).  One of the richest clubs in England still not opening the wallet to any great effect, the only thing in Wael's wallet appears to be a Chelsea season ticket and mothballs

3 minutes ago, Mike Hunt-Hertz said:

I had forgotten that abortion. Now I cannot unsee it.

They've had some crap sponsors over the years - do they still do that raffle where the loser gets to sponsor the kit for a season?

8 minutes ago, Red Army 75 said:

Excuse me 

I wonder what was contained in a 'Snack Box' - I'm imagining a pasty, packet of crisps and Fanta all way past their sell-by date (rather like the club themselves)

how long does it take to procure a shirt that is somewhat reminiscent of a jester / mouldy battenburg pattern?  They could always revert to the whiteboard coloured in quarters idea, get plain white t-shirts and colour in the quarters themselves with blue felt tip (colour by {massive} numbers perhaps?)

3 minutes ago, wendyredredrobin said:

 

I think the life of the Sags is very well summed up by Yattongas.  Mind the gap

yattongas Fans' Favourite 4 minutes ago   Quote When was the last time you were genuinely excited by something the club done or a player signed?  For me it was when we got planning permission for UWE and when we re-signed Paul Randall. Not a lot in 40 odd yrs !

I thought they also got excited when the carpets got cleaned in the bar?

1 minute ago, BCFC11 said:

The only thing Unique about they losers is their ability to keep making themselves look tinpot with the gifts they continue to produce on a weekly basis. Why they think they are something special I’ll never know. Also have absolutely no idea why goal music would make them a franchise, they are more of a franchise than we’ll ever be, not that they understand the meaning of a franchise.

don’t forget their unique kit - so unique it was worn by other clubs way before them (a jester outfit is very apt for that lot, or it is possibly a mouldy battenburg style kit, or maybe twattenburg would be more apt)

On ‎24‎/‎06‎/‎2019 at 14:04, Mattyisared said:

Completely agree. Not sure they have the money to, have seen they hold a lot of interest in 3 players who I suppose would be considered marquee by their standards; Nicky Maynard, Danny Mayor and Ched Evans. Ched Evans has got to be completely unachievable. Even if they did have the money, a player who scores 17 goals in their league last season won't be wanting to play for a club that finished worse than the team he was playing for. I think though, that the lack of money may not be as relevant as you may think for those two considering they play for Bury and the complete fiasco that is going on there financially. May be great news for the sags. They'll have a lot of interest in them for sure from League 1, but I actually think either are achievable. Potentially both. But even if they did sign both I honestly think Maynard would completely flop but Mayor would do well. 

Edit: Saw the sags had a transfer rumours page and Mayor is out of contract. Pirate (one of the few fans on that shit website I actually respect who is surprisingly knowledgeable on players who don't play for the sags has him as his top target. Not been linked with almost any League 1 club. Seems actually pretty realistic for a lot of Sag rumours. Albeit some of them did suggest Leon Clarke, which is well...

They won't be signing Maynard he's joined a bigger club (Mansfield)

they are so obsessed they troll a thread relating to our new kit - "worst kit ever" my arse

http://www.footballshirtculture.com/19/20-Kits/bristol-city-2019-2020-bristol-sport-home-kit.html

27 minutes ago, WesM said:

Stefan Payne has done the gas fans here!

 

hat well and truly doffed Sir - world class trolling 

3 hours ago, myol'man said:

Ideal Father's Day gifts: 

 

 

 

surprised there isn’t any stale Fanta in those glasses

5 minutes ago, steviestevieneville said:

More expensive than the dolman and south stand  

to be fair though, it is still a reasonable price for a circus tent

1 hour ago, Red Army 75 said:

Pathetic little club. And that is after positive sells due to finance option . No wonder they are in shit street financially with support like that . Only themselves to blame. Mickey ******* mouse 

Massive club - their season ticket holders would just about fill the Atyeo stand

50 minutes ago, Rudolf Hucker said:

They're all Fantaists. (Looks like Fanta, smells like Fanta, tastes like shit).

more Fanta's Motto than Santa's Grotto........

3 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said:

They'll be applying for Lottery funding next.

I thought that sort of thing was for good causes, not lost causes 

7 minutes ago, DSTAF said:

That’s the sags in a nutshell: always had big plans, just needed someone else to pay for it.

Away fans are a new low for them though. 

the club is an embarrassment to Bristol, the Football League, football itself and dare I say society as a whole - I would say I wish they would toddle off to the Southern League ASAP but the clubs there don’t deserve that “privilege”

17 minutes ago, Red Right Hand said:

I see the keeper that pretty much kept them up last season has got his dream move to a much larger, better supported and well run club.

Signed for Gillingham.

 

13 minutes ago, cityal said:

"Well run" as in they  "ran" from "Wael?"

Wael is running the club well as far as I can see - running it into the ground, long may that continue

30 minutes ago, Midlands Robin said:

Pinched from Facebook and bloody funny. 

 

Christ - Gabrielle has let herself go in recent years   "dreams can come true, not if you support the Blue Few"

16 minutes ago, Moments of Pleasure said:

To be fair to them, I don't think they actually started all this "tremendous support" fairytale Jackanory silliness.

As I remember it now, the E. Post initiated this when they left Eastville - because of not owning their own ground, which was a result of insufficient dosh, which was a result of having shite support (which was a result of having a shite team, which was a result of having shite support. Which was .... etc etc) - and trudged over to Bath - a journey of about 9 miles instead of about 4 from the Few "heartlands" to home games so a massive show of faith there (not exactly Brighton playing in Gillingham).

Because everything about Bristol Rovers in 1986 was shite and piss-poor, mundane and about as interesting as Bob Crampton's sex life, the Post felt sorry for them and with nothing good to say about them they came up with the idea that their supporters were in some way "special." 

"There's always been something special about Bristol Rovers" I seem to remember Peter Godsiff writing at the time*. The sort of thing you might say about one of your always overlooked, very ordinary children just to try and encourage them. But Godsiff failed to specify what it was, unsurprisingly, beyond the "homely" and friendly club it was (ie not successful, and not likely to be), and eventually he and the Post settled upon the support being "special," something they absorbed and came to believe themselves.

It's no use pointing out that their crowd was only just over 4k in the last year at Eastville, fewer than what we were getting in the 4th division when we were 92nd for a while. Or anything about their support that is at odds with the "special" narrative. The belief is firmly embedded, over decades now, and the confirmatory evidence is there to be cherry-picked, and the inconvenient facts, the mundane reality, to be firmly dismissed and ignored.

You are wasting your time arguing with believers over stuff like this. 

That going from Eastville to Trumpton was an upgrade - no joking here; Rovers 3k at cavernous Eastville or 3k in tight Trumpton? They could, almost, fill (well, one side) the latter, never the former - certainly no great humbling of once glamorous high-achievers accustomed to more grandiose surroundings, no great step-down, and was barely any different to go from East Bristol to this side of Bath, and they started showing up again when they had a winning team (like any crowd, so therefore: not special), didn't come in to it. Rovers were shite and leaving their shite ground that they didn't own and couldn't fill and it was sad, and they were pathetic, and they needed cheering up/encouraging, and the Post had papers to sell, so let's make something up: their fans are "special" (and please keep buying the Evening Post).

The "special" genie was out of the bottle. And the infatuated Few were not of a mind to attempt putting it back in. From this you get all the "thousands locked out" and "39000" at Wembley (when it was 27k tickets sold, according to Vanarama twitter) and "we'd take more than Arsenal and Chelsea combined" magical thinking.

But don't blame them: pity is more appropriate. Blame the Post, and Peter Godsiff. He did this out of pity; pity and keen journalistic business sense. So pity - and not pointing out facts - is the correct response to Fewers claiming "special" status. "Yes, yes mate: you are so special. So, so very special." "More than Chelsea and Arsenal, yes mate. You would." "Thousands locked out, I know. I remember." "3 thousand for the last game at Eastville....sorry! What am I saying? 44 thousand to Wembley, yes, pretty 'special' that" etc etc.

 

 

*at this point, mid 80s, Rovers had, I think, been promoted twice and relegated twice, in their league history. All between the 2nd and 3rd division. No top flight football, no 4th division football. No Cup semi final appearances. One England player, earning one cap. Poor crowds in a dismal ground, with dogs running around it. In other words: the epitome of nothing special. Dull, dull, dull. Probably explains the decision to go with the unusual/comedy kit: the only way anyone outside of Bristol would ever notice or remember them. Nothing they do on the pitch has or will achieve this.

Clearly, this is not a "special" football club, if we are to be adults about this and not children, and so the folly shifts to the idea that the tragic 3k with nothing better to do that now trudge to Bath instead of Eastville - any City fans travelling in from Weston travel twice as far - are themselves "special." And this is still with us today, and there's nothing we can do about it now. 

We'll just have to live with being the better club and team. With more people turning up for games. We'll never be "special" like them.

I seem to recall Radio Bristol adding fuel to the 'massive support' BS the best part of 30 years ago - Colin Howlett would report live from whichever ground they were at that weekend and tell everyone there were thousands of Rovers fans on the away terrace, yet when you watched the highlights on HTV News on the Monday evening there were about three people in it.